Car Veers Off Busy Hamden Street, Injuring Three

HAMDEN — Two motorists and a pedestrian were injured and a lane of Dixwell Avenue was closed Friday morning when a driver lost control of a car on a busy street, police said.

The crash happened about 8:45 a.m. in the 2700 block of Dixwell Avenue, said Capt. Ronald Smith, when the 24-year-old driver was headed south.

The car crossed into the northbound lanes and struck a traffic control box and a utility pole, he said. The impact caused the traffic box to loosen from its base and strike a 48-year-old woman who had been walking her bicycle on the sidewalk, Smith said.

The woman suffered a cut to her leg and was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital, he said, as was the driver's 72-year-old passenger, who injured his nose. The driver was transported for observation, police said.

A northbound lane of Dixwell Avenue was closed for about an hour.

No charges were filed as of early Friday afternoon. The crash remains under investigation by Officer Kevin Hall of the police department's traffic division.